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Sony Releases International "Ghostbusters" Trailer!

Sony Pictures Entertainment has unveiled their first international trailer for their upcoming Ghostbusters movie!:

Sony's international promo for Paul Feig's film appears to address the controversies over all-female casting and Leslie Jones' 'street-smart' New Yorker character.

It might just be the most controversial remake since Gus van Sant's shot-for-shot reworking of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Now a new trailer for Paul Feig's Ghostbusters appears to reference some of the criticisms levelled at the film, as well as offering up our first proper look at Chris Hemsworth's receptionist, Kevin.

Last week studio Sony debuted the first full promo for Ghostbusters. While the reaction was generally positive, some Twitter users continued to bemoan the shift to an all-female team that had led to threats of a boycott from some sections of the internet last year. Meanwhile, the actor Leslie Jones has come in for rampant trolling on social media over her "street-smart" New Yorker character, which some say amounts to a racist stereotype.

The new international trailer suggests Feig plans to lampoon controversies surrounding the replacement of original male Ghostbusters Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and the late Harold Ramis with an all-female quartet. In one clip, Hemsworth offers up a fresh logo for the team, whose femininity has been underlined by the addition of a pair of breasts. "You do see how this might make us look bad?" asks Kristen Wiig's Erin Gilbert.

The trailer also seems to reference the social media storm that has swirled around Jones for several days. At one point, the Saturday Night Live alumnus tries to crowdsurf over a concert audience, who are having none of it. "OK, I don’t know if it was a race thing or a lady thing, but I'm mad as hell," the comic screams, having landed flat on her back on the concrete.

The trailer also offers a look at what Slimer and the new Ecto 1 siren will sound like!

On Tuesday, Feig mounted a fierce defence of Jones after the actor threatened to quit Twitter in the face of trolling. "Haters, attack me all you want but when you attack and insult my cast, you've crossed the line," he tweeted.

All three surviving members of the 1984 Ghostbusters team are signed up to return in some capacity in the 2016 remake, with Murray tipped to take a larger role. All three have given Feig's film their blessing, even though Hudson initially described the all-female concept as a "bad idea" when it was announced in 2014.

Two years after the all-female reboot of the beloved 1980s franchise arrived, original star Dan Aykroyd is now promising that a true Ghostbusters 3, starring the three surviving OG ‘busters, is on its way. Many thought the death of Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler, in 2014 had put paid to a proper reunion, but Aykroyd’s comments suggest that we can look forward to him teaming up with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson in the near future.

While speaking on The Big Interview With Dan Rather, the man fans know as Dr. Ray Stantz, the heart of the Ghostbusters agreed with Rather’s wording that he was talking about making a “full-blown third Ghostbusters,” with an unknown writer already currently working on the script. Obviously, Aykroyd wouldn’t let on to anything about story details, but he did tease that it’ll try and recapture what worked so well about the original films while giving it a “21st century” twist.

“I think we got a story that’s gonna work. It’s being written by a really goo…

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If so, there's good news from the world of Gozer — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works!

Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”